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A. J. B-ELL, or BLooM'INGBon-e, NEW YORK.

' Leters Patent No.-.-7 3 157, dated January 7, 1868. i

IMPROVEMBNT IN STRAW-CUTTERS.

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Be it known'that I, A. BELL, of Bloominghurg, in the county ofSnliiran', and State of New Yorlghave invented a. new and useful Iniprovement in Straw or Hay-Cutters; 'nd Ido herehy'deolare that the following is o. full, clear, and exoet description thereoi', whieh'will enable others slcilled'in th'eart to make and use the same, reference-being had to' the aceompanying drawings, forming part of this-specification. l' l 1 The present invention relates to that class of hey or straw-cutters, the cuttin'g-blade of which is carried by a. frame arranged'to have an up-an'ddown motion in a. vertieal'plane and the invention consists in giving to the entting-edge of the knife or cutter-blade n. shape similar to tha-t of the teeth of n. saw-blade, with the in clined edge of such teeth suitably'shorpened to ent, wherehy, `while o. drawing cut is produced upon the hey or straw,

it is done by o. 'Getting-edge, of such form os to require but little fore'e and strength, and With mnclrfacility and ense. In the accompanying plate of drawings my improvement in'lray and stroiv-cutters is illustrnted-- Figure 1 being an elevationvof the some at the front end, and Figure 2 a. longitudioal verti'eol section, taken in the plane of theline :c x, 1. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding ports. I A, in the drowings, represents an upright frame, supporting the box Byin which the hay, strmrz Ste., is placed for being fed to the knii'e or cutter-blade, C, for being cut. This cutter-blade C, along its coming-edge, is made with a series of teeth, D, like those of afsnit-blade, with the inolined edges E of such teeth suitebly hevelled or shorpened for cutting hay or strzuv, Rho., When-fod to the same, and as the blade is broughtdown thereon by the up-and-(lown movement impnrted to the v'vertical' frame F, arranged for such :te-tion in suitable upright guides G, and by the revolution of o. driving-shzift, H. I

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lettere Patent- The toothed cutter-blade O, in comlination with the frame G, guides F, and hox B, all eonstructed, arranged, and operating snbstantielly os described. l p V I i' i The above specification ofmy invention signed by me, this 11th day of September, 1867.'

' A. 5,-. BELL.

Witnesses:

WM. F, MeNAMAm',- `WM. DEAN. OVnRnLLL 

